And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

I am just as human as the man.

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.

Your lips are so soft and girly. I really must know what you use on them.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.